Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation Quotes

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True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying alo...

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of...

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always d...

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation